<p>I'm considering majoring in History and Cornell's one of my top choice schools so I checked out the online course catalog for the history department...it seems like around 3/4 of the courses are "not offered this year". If I get accepted to Cornell I wouldn't be going untill 2006...will any more of these courses be offered then? Does Cornell have a great History program at all? That's important to me.</p>
<p>not offered means nobodys taking them i think. they have so many course options if nobody is interested in taking them at sign up, (by nobody i mean less than 1 person) then they obviously dont offer it. many of the more advanced level courses involve having a 2 or 3 person class with the professor. Cornell's rediculously large course book will work to your advantage, not against it.</p>
<p>i'm going to be a history major at cornell, they have a good department</p>
<p>I was a history major at Cornell. The department is superb. LeCapra, LaFeber, Kammen, Moore, Polenberg are all still there. I'm sure they've added some great teachers since then.</p>
<p>Furthermore there are wonderful professors over in Govt. (Lowi and Kramnick just to name a couple). On top of that the Philosophy and English Departments are really good and offer great supplements to the History department course offerings.</p>
<p>I think however that the fact that a course is not being offered means that the professor is not teaching it that semester not that there are no students taking it.</p>
<p>yeah if arps in it its def a nasty department...with mad surfing skillz</p>